AFTRS Library New Titles. On display 25 October to 8 November 2019

First published in France in 1958, then the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In eighty-three photographs, Frank looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a people plagued by racism, ill-served by their politicians, and rendered numb by a rapidly expanding culture of consumption. More of an ode or a poem than a literal document, the book is as powerful and provocative today as it was fifty-five years ago.

Stolen from his mother and placed into institutional care when he was only a few months old, Uncle Jack was raised under the government's White Australia Policy. The loneliness and isolation he experienced during those years had a devastating impact on him that endured long after he reconnected with his Aboriginal roots and discovered his stolen identity. From his sideline as a cat burglar, battles with drug addiction and stints in prison, to gracing the nation's stages and screens as he dazzled audiences with his big personality and acting prowess, he takes us through the most formative moments of his life.

Starting with Giles' research into the various monsters & demons Buffy & the gang have encountered, this book delves into the folklore that inspired the show's bad guys - their mythology, science, cultural, literary & historical origins.

Featuring J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy Parker, Albert Camus, Mark Twain, Betty Friedan, Hannah Arendt, etc

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece, The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka's eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.

In 1939, John Ford cast John Wayne in Stagecoach and made him a star, and for the next twenty years, the two men were a blockbuster Hollywood team, turning out many of the finest Westerns ever made. But by 1960, the bond of their friendship had frayed, and Wayne felt he could move beyond his mentor with his first solo project. Few of Wayne's later films would have the brilliance or the cachet of a John Ford Western, but the careers of these two men changed movie making in ways that endure to this day. Drawing on previously untapped caches of letters and personal documents, Nancy Schoenberger dramatically narrates a complicated, poignant, and iconic friendship, and explores the lasting legacy of Ford and Wayne on American culture.

The witch as a cultural archetype has existed in some form since the beginning of recorded history. Her nature has changed through technological developments and sociocultural shifts--a transformation most evident in her depictions on screen. This book traces the figure of the witch through American screen history with an analysis of the entertainment industry's shifting boundaries concerning expressions of femininity.